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[Raymond Scheel]

On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 Fairlight said: 
> And industry sources say that after-market used games sales is detrimental.
> At least the publishers there are generally large and can afford to eat
> those lost sales...unlike a tiny company like fP-Tech.
> 
> Not that I usually find myself standing up for fP-Tech, but c'mon, you can
> order 5.6 licenses directly from them, so why not do so?
>
> (If the answer isn't cost, $0.01 says the answer is the license manager.)
>
> mark->

Mark:

We are splitting off an extensive (read: convoluted and cranky) filePro application to a machine of its own as part of the department using that application moving to the oversight of a different state agency.  Our immediate goal is to get the other agency managing the machines and applications used by their own staff as seamlessly as possible.  If they want to grow their own filePro developer and upgrade versions, they will be free to do so as soon as we cut them loose, but I suspect they will re-write in a more ODBC friendly back-end (since much of that shop is DB2 based) rather than go that route.

Rick retires in the (very) near future, which will leave me as the last filePro hand on deck here.  I do not want to be left trying to singlehandedly manage that transition *and* keep the rest of our stuff running. (Even with the application in question gone, it will be just me maintaining what used to have 4 people working on it.)  So, leaving off a version change will limit what we have to look at as far as what the source might be of the problems that will show up, and I won't have to keep disparate sets of fP quirks straight in my head...

Ray Scheel